2019 Washington Redskins season
Following the season's end, team president Bruce Allen and several others within the team's front office were fired. This was also the final season the team was known as the Redskins, as they retired the name and logo following the season after years of controversy regarding it.


2019 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Detroit Lions
This was the final home victory as the "Redskins" because the name was retired in the wake of George Floyd protests.


2019 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Carolina Panthers
This would become the final victory as the "Redskins", as the name was retired in the wake of social unrest in 2020.


2019 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Green Bay Packers
The Redskins would fall to 3–10. This loss would eliminate the Redskins from playoff contention for the fourth consecutive season.


2019 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. New York Giants
The loss meant the Redskins were swept by the Giants for the first time since 2014. The loss also placed the Redskins last in the division for the first time since 2014.


2019 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Dallas Cowboys
Case Keenum returned to the starting role with Dwayne Haskins suffering an ankle injury the previous week. With the loss, the Redskins would tie their worst records of all time. This loss also ensured that they would get swept by all division rivals. This was their final game as the "Redskins" as the name was terminated several months later.


2019 Washington Spirit season
The 2019 season is Washington Spirit's seventh season, competing in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States. The season is the first to be led by newly appointed head coach Richie Burke.


2019 Washington Spirit season, Club, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 Washington Spirit season, Transfers, Draft picks
Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in. Only trades involving draft picks and executed during the 2019 NWSL College Draft will be listed in the notes.


2019 Washington State Cougars football team
The 2019 Washington State Cougars football team represented Washington State University during the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team played their home games in Martin Stadium in Pullman, Washington. They were led by 8th-year head coach Mike Leach and competed as members of the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference.


2019 Washington State Cougars football team, Previous season
The 2018 season was one of the greatest in Washington State history. Despite being predicted to finish fifth place in the Pac-12 North division by the Pac-12 media poll, the Cougars won a school record-tying ten games, the first time they had won that many in the regular season since the Rose Bowl year of 2002.


2019 Washington State Cougars football team, Previous season
They also surged as high as seventh in major polling and went into the Apple Cup with a chance to clinch the Pac-12 North title and a shot at the Rose Bowl, but lost 28–15 to rival Washington in the snow in Pullman, a sixth consecutive loss to the Huskies. The 10–2 Cougars were invited to the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio to play the Iowa State Cyclones. They won 28–26 for a school record 11th win.


2019 Washington State Cougars football team, Preseason, Pac-12 media days, Pac-12 media polls
In the Pac-12 preseason media poll, Washington State was voted to finish in fourth place in the North Division and fifth place in the Pac-12 Championship.


2019 Washington Valor season
The 2019 Washington Valor season was the third season for the Washington Valor in the Arena Football League. The Valor played at the Capital One Arena and were coached by Benji McDowell for the 2019 season.


2019 Washington Valor season, Standings
y - clinched regular season titlex - clinched playoff berth


2019 Washington Valor season, Schedule, Regular season
The 2019 regular season schedule was released on February 13, 2019. All times Eastern.


2019 Washington wildfires
The 2019 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2019.


2019 Washington wildfires, Government preparation
In January 2019, the Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz proposed a $55 million, 10-year plan to combat fires that included greatly expanded budgeting for 30 new full-time and 40 seasonal firefighters, new training academies, new firefighting equipment including aircraft, and a new "rangeland" firefighting plan for the state.


2019 Washington wildfires, Environment
Drought conditions existed in over half of Washington counties in May 2019. Many water basins were at half their median snowpack level, and the state overall was at its fourth lowest level in 30 years according to the Washington State Department of Ecology.


2019 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke
There were 24 Western Washington wildfires reported before the spring equinox, including a 18-acre (7.3 ha) blaze near Mount St. Helens that heavily damaged one structure.


2019 Washington wildfires, Fires and smoke
The 243 Command Fire was the first large fire of the season. It began on June 3 near Wanapum Dam on the Columbia River in Eastern Washington, and by June 5 had grown to 5,000 acres (2,000 ha), causing mandatory evacuations near Beverly, and made Spokane's air quality the worst in the United States.


2019 Waterbury, Connecticut mayoral election
The 2019 Waterbury, Connecticut mayoral election was held on November 5, 2019. Incumbent mayor Neil O'Leary defeated Republican challenger Ray Work.


2019 Waterford City and County Council election
A Waterford City and County Council election was held in County Waterford and Waterford City in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 32 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from 6 local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote.


2019 Waterford City and County Council election
The 2018 boundary review committee recommended significant changes to the LEAs in the 2014 elections due to terms of references requiring a maximum of seven councillors in each LEA and changes in population revealed in the 2016 census. These changes were adopted by statutory instrument (S.I.) No. 635/2018.


2019 Waterford City and County Council election
Voters in Waterford also took part in a plebiscite on whether or not to establish the position of a directly elected mayor for the council under the Local Government Act 2019. The proposal was rejected by a narrow margin of 50.8% No to 49.2% Yes. Two other council also held plebiscites on directly-elected mayors: Cork City rejected the proposal, and Limerick was the only one of the three to vote Yes.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship
The 2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship is the 132nd edition of the Waterford GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded clubs in County Waterford, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Waterford in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship
The Nire were the defending champions after they defeated Kilrossanty in the previous years final. However the defence of their title came undone at the Semi-Final stage when losing to Ballinacourty.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship
This was Kilmacthomas' return to the senior grade after claiming the 2018 Waterford I.F.C. title. This was their first year back in the top-flight of Waterford club football in 16 years since relegation at the end of the 2003 season.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship
On 20 October 2019, Rathgormack claimed their 10th Waterford S.F.C. crown when defeating Ballinacourty by 2-6 to 1-6 in the final at Fraher Field.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship
Portlaw were relegated to the 2020 I.F.C. after losing their Relegation Final to Brickey Rangers. This ended their three year stay in the senior ranks.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2018 championship season.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Group stage
All 12 teams enter the competition at this stage. Groups are organised into three groups of four teams. The previous year's champions must enter Group 1, the previous year's runners-up must enter Group 2 while the two beaten semi-finalists will both enter Group 3.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Group stage
The top placed team in each group will qualify directly for the Quarter-Finals joined by the 2nd placed team with the best group record. The best 2nd placed team shall be decided on following criteria: 1. Total points won in the group; 2. Best scoring difference;3. Total scores for;4. Total goals scored;5. Where teams still cannot be separated,  a draw shall take place. No play-offs shall be used.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Group stage
The remaining eight teams shall then be divided into two pots. Pot A is to consist of the remaining 2nd placed teams plus the two 3rd placed teams with the best group record. The best 3rd placed teams shall be decided on the same criteria as outlined above. Pot B shall consist of the remaining 4 teams.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Group stage
A draw will take place to give four matches with no repeat of group matches allowed. The four winners will advance to Quarter-Finals to oppose the four teams already qualified in a seeded draw. The four losers are to contest the Relegation Play-Offs.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Finals, Preliminary Quarter-Finals
All eight teams who failed to finish top of their group (except for the 2nd placed team with the best group record) shall enter the Preliminary Quarter-Finals. Teams are divided into two pots. Pot A is to consist of the remaining 2nd placed teams plus the two 3rd placed teams with the best group record. The best 3rd placed teams shall be decided on the same criteria as outlined above. Pot B shall consist of the remaining 4 teams.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Finals, Preliminary Quarter-Finals
A draw will took place to give four matches with no repeat of group matches allowed. The four winners will advance to Quarter-Finals to oppose the four teams already qualified in a seeded draw. The four losers are to contest the Relegation Play-Offs.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Finals, Quarter-Finals
The three teams who topped their groups along with the best ranked 2nd placed team will face the four Preliminary Quarter-Final winners in the Quarter-Finals.


2019 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Relegation Play-Offs
The four losers from the Preliminary Quarter-Finals enter the Relegation Semi-Finals. The two winners of these Semi-Finals will secure their senior status for 2019 while the two losers will face each other in the Relegation Final. The winner of this match will secure their senior status for 2019 while the loser will be relegated to next year's I.F.C.


2019 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
The 2019 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship is the 119th staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897. The championship began on 6 April 2019 and is scheduled to end on 19 October 2019.


2019 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
On 13 October 2019, Ballygunner won the championship after a 1-24 to 1-15 defeat of De La Salle in the final. It was their 18th championship title overall and their 6th title in succession.


2019 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
Ballygunner's Pauric Mahony was the championship's top scorer with 0-69.


2019 Watford Borough Council election
The 2019 Watford Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Watford Borough Council in England. This was the same day as other local elections.


2019 Waverley Borough Council election
The 2019 Waverley Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Waverley Borough Council in England as one of the 2019 local elections.


2019 Waverley Borough Council election, Results
In the 2015 elections the Conservatives won 53 seats, the Farnham Residents Party won 3 and an Independent won the remaining seat. However, before the 2019 election the composition of the council had changed through by-elections to 50 Conservatives, 6 Farnham Residents and 1 Liberal Democrat.


2019 Wayne State Warriors football team
The 2019 Wayne State Warriors football team represented Wayne State University in the 2019 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by 16th year head coach Paul Winters and played their home games at Tom Adams Field. They finished the 2019 season with a winning record of 8–3 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.


2019 Wealden District Council election
The 2019 Wealden District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect all members of Wealden District Council in England. Due to new ward boundaries, the number of total seats was reduced to 45 seats, elected from 41 wards.


2019 Wealden District Council election, Results
From the election, the seats were allocated to the following parties:


2019 Webby Awards
The 23rd annual Webby Awards were held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 13, 2019, and hosted by actress Jenny Slate. The Webby Awards have been dubbed the "internet's highest honor".


2019 Webby Awards
The nominees were announced on April 2, 2019 and voting was open to the public. The winners were announced on April 23. Winners include Disney, which won Webby's 'Media Company of the Year', Hasan Minhaj, who won the 'Webby Special Achievement' award, and web series 'Fake News Writer', which won the Webby in Video Entertainment.


2019 Weber State Wildcats football team
The 2019 Weber State Wildcats football team represented Weber State University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Wildcats were led by fifth-year head coach Jay Hill and played their games at Stewart Stadium as members of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 11–4, 7–1 in Big Sky play to finish in a two-way tie for the Big Sky championship with Sacramento State. They received the Big Sky's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where, after a first round bye, they defeated Kennesaw State in the second round and Montana in the quarterfinals before losing to James Madison in the semifinals.


2019 Weber State Wildcats football team, Previous season
They finished the 2018 season 10–3, 7–1 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for the Big Sky championship with Eastern Washington and UC Davis. They received the Big Sky's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where, after a first round bye, they defeated Southeast Missouri State in the second round before losing in the quarterfinals to Maine.


2019 Weber State Wildcats football team, Preseason, Big Sky preseason poll
The Big Sky released their preseason media and coaches' polls on July 15, 2019. The Wildcats were picked to finish in third place in both polls.


2019 Weber State Wildcats football team, Preseason, Preseason All–Big Sky team
The Wildcats had seven players selected to the preseason all-Big Sky team, the most of any team in the conference.


2019 Weber State Wildcats football team, Schedule
Despite also being a member of the Big Sky, the game against Cal Poly was considered a non-conference game with no effect on the Big Sky standings.


2019 Weber State Wildcats football team, FCS Playoffs
The Wildcats entered the postseason tournament as the number three seed, with a first-round bye.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election
The 2019 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections and was be held on 12 October to determine who would serve as Mayor of Wellington for the next three-year term. It was won by Andy Foster, who unseated the incumbent Justin Lester by 62 votes.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Candidates
A total of nine candidates sought the mayoralty position in 2019.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Campaign
Local promoter Phil Sprey offered funding of $10,000 to the campaign for a viable candidate to run against Lester, stating Lester was "killing Wellington", but he was not interested in running himself. Lester responded by saying Sprey was "all talk". Former councillor Bryan Weyburne and local businessman Digby Paape accepted Sprey's offer and formed the Wellington First Party which would focus on transportation issues and was critical of the amounts of ratepayer money spent on cycle ways. Ultimately, Paape did not run for mayor.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Campaign
Incumbent Mayor Justin Lester launched his re-election campaign in March at the Te Wharewaka function centre to a crowd of supporters and Labour Party faithful. He announced a series of promises for his second term including removing private vehicle access to Wellington City's golden mile which encompasses Lambton Quay, Willis Street and Courtenay Place. Other policies proposed by Lester included ending homelessness by increasing supported living units and establishing a 'Welcome Home' package for refugees which would grant new arrivals to the city free access to council facilities.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Campaign
On 12 July 2019 the formation of a new centre-right political grouping 'The Wellington Party' was announced. The new party fielded candidates for both the Wellington City Council and Wellington Regional Council with policies around expenditure cuts, improvement to the bus network and reduction of cycleway construction. The Wellington Party claimed to have polling data showing low approval ratings for both Lester and his grasp on the city's issues. Lester said he welcomed the new party stating it was good for democracy to have an open exchange of ideas. The party was created by members of the National Party; National's Wellington Central chair Bryan Hall became chairman of the new party, but has no official ties. It also subsumed the previously proposed Wellington First party.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Campaign
Near the end of July, Conor Hill called for council-owned golf courses to be reduced in size to free-up land for housing in an attempt to mitigate the housing crisis. Lester and other Labour Party representatives voiced opposition to the proposals, saying the city's green town belt needed protecting. Hill launched a series of policies including a switch to land value-based rates, establishing light rail and cancelling council funding for airport runway extensions and convention centres.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Campaign
August saw a series of late entries to the mayoral race and increasing criticism from councilors of the direction of the city under Lester's leadership. Diane Calvert, on announcing her bid for the mayoralty, said that "The city just hasn't moved forward [under Lester]. No one likes to say that about their city ... but I think its got to the stage now where we've got to be open and transparent about things." The Wellington Party withdrew its plans to stand a mayoral candidate for fear of splitting the centre-right vote, and instead encouraged supporters to vote for Calvert. Andy Foster, a councilor since 1992, made his bid for the mayoralty later than most with the support of director Peter Jackson, who was opposed to the proposed development at Shelly Bay which included plans for new housing and retail space. Jackson stated he believed Lester lacked integrity.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Campaign
In September candidates' hoardings began to appear around the city. In an interview with the Dominion Post, three former mayors voiced their concern around the trajectory of Wellington. Lester's immediate predecessor, Celia Wade-Brown (mayor from 2010 to 2016), said she supported Lester continuing in the role. Mark Blumsky (1995-2001) defended his sale of the council asset Capital Power while he was mayor, and suggested that the council look at asset sales now as an alternative method of acquiring revenue to reinvest in Civic Square.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Campaign
Wade-Brown, Blumsky and Kerry Prendergast (2001-2010) identified a poor transport system, uncertainty around infrastructure projects and traffic as the primary issues hurting Wellington's reputation. Also in September, the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions released endorsements concerning races throughout the Wellington region. Candidates who were, in the opinion of Unions Wellington, deemed to be "strong, progressive candidates who put working people first" received an endorsement. Justin Lester, Conor Hill and Norbert Hausberg were all recommended as potential 'progressive' mayors while it was urged that Jenny Condie and Andy Foster be ranked last by voters.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Turnout
Preliminary data on turnout indicates that about 40% of eligible voters voted in this election. This would be lower than the previous election in 2016, which saw 45.6% turnout, but similar to the 2013 and 2010 elections.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Results
In a result that shocked many, Andy Foster beat incumbent Justin Lester on the final iteration by 62 votes, after votes for Calvert were transferred to Foster. This was thought to be the closest result in a Wellington mayoral election.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Results
A preliminary count gave Foster a lead of 715 on the final iteration. After the final results were announced and the margin reduced, Lester indicated he was might request a recount, which he did on 25 October 2019, but this request was denied by a court on 8 November 2019.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Results
Unsuccessful mayoral candidates Jenny Condie and Diane Calvert were both elected to Wellington City Council. Lester's Labour ticket also faced setbacks in other Wellington local elections, with Brian Dawson losing his seat to student union president Tamatha Paul in the Lambton ward and Peter Gilberd losing his seat to Jenny Condie in the Northern ward.


2019 Wellington City mayoral election, Results
As mayor, Andy Foster also won the right to select the deputy mayor from the Wellington City councillors. A number of councillors approached Foster to push against selecting Nicola Young or Diane Calvert as deputy; the elected council was mainly left-leaning with three Labour members, three Green members, and two other left-leaning members, whereas Foster, Young, and Calvert are more conservative. Foster selected Green Party member Sarah Free as the deputy mayor.


2019 Wellington local elections
The 2019 Wellington local elections are part of the wider 2019 New Zealand local elections, to elect members to sub-national councils and boards. The Wellington elections cover one regional council (the Greater Wellington Regional Council), eight territorial authority (city and district) councils, three district health boards, and various local boards and licensing trusts.


2019 Wellington local elections, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Councillors standing down
By July 2019 four councillors had announced that they would not be standing for re-election to the Wellington Regional Council; Sue Kedgley, Chris Laidlaw, Ian McKinnon and  Paul Swain. The GWRC has been "under fire" for changes to the bus services, particularly in Wellington city.


2019 Wellington local elections, Wellington City Council, Motukairangi/Eastern Ward Ward
The Motukairangi-Eastern ward returns three councillors to the Wellington City Council. The incumbents were Sarah Free, Simon Marsh, and Chris Calvi-Freeman -- Free and Calvi-Freeman sought re-election; Marsh did not.


2019 Wellington local elections, Wellington City Council, Motukairangi/Eastern Ward Ward
Free was re-elected in the first count, and newcomer Teri O'Neill was elected in the fourth (after the elimination of Ajay Rathod, Bernard O'Shaughnessy, and Steph Edlin, in that order). The final seat was taken in the fifth count by Sean Rush, who had overtaken Calvi-Freeman after starting narrowly behind him.


2019 Wellington local elections, Wellington City Council, Paekawakawa/Southern Ward
The Paekawakawa/Southern ward returns two councillors to the Wellington City Council. The incumbents were Fleur Fitzsimons and David Lee -- Fitzsimons sought re-election; Lee did not.


2019 Wellington local elections, Wellington City Council, Paekawakawa/Southern Ward
Fitzsimons and newcomer Laurie Foon (from the same party as outgoing councillor Lee) were both elected in the first count. Since there were only two seats to be filled, no further counts were necessary.


2019 Wellington local elections, Wellington City Council, Pukehīnau/Lambton Ward
The Pukehīnau/Lambton ward returns three councillors to the Wellington City Council. The incumbents were Iona Pannett, Nicola Young, and Brian Dawson -- all three sought re-election.


2019 Wellington local elections, Wellington City Council, Pukehīnau/Lambton Ward
Pannett and Young received enough votes in the first count to be elected immediately. Dawson lost his seat in the sixth count to newcomer Tamatha Paul, after all other candidates (Harry Smith, Lee Orchard, and Shan Ng) had been eliminated.


2019 Wellington local elections, Wellington City Council, Takapū/Northern Ward
The Takapū/Northern ward returns three councillors to the Wellington City Council. The incumbents were Jill Day, Malcolm Sparrow, and Peter Gilberd -- all three sought re-election.


2019 Wellington local elections, Wellington City Council, Takapū/Northern Ward
Day and Sparrow retained their seats (the former being re-elected in the first round). Gilberd was beaten for the last seat by a newcomer, Jenny Condie, after the elimination (in order) of Tracy Hurst-Porter, John Peters, Graeme Sawyer, and John Apanowicz.


2019 Wellington local elections, Wellington City Council, Wharangi/Onslow-Western Ward
The Wharangi/Onslow-Western ward returns three councillors to the Wellington City Council. The incumbents were Andy Foster, Simon Woolf, and Diane Calvert -- all three were on the ballot again, although Foster's candidacy was superseded by his victory in the mayoral race, and his votes were redistributed according to next preferences.


2019 Wellington local elections, Wellington City Council, Wharangi/Onslow-Western Ward
Calvert was re-elected in the first count. Woolf was re-elected in the seventh, after Ray Chung, Richard McIntosh, and Rohan Biggs were eliminated. Newcomer Rebecca Matthews was elected in the tenth, after the elimination of Conor Hill and over Michelle Rush, the other remaining candidate.


2019 Welsh Open (snooker)
The 2019 ManBetX Welsh Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament which took place from 11 to 17 February 2019 at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales. It was the thirteenth ranking event of the 2018/2019 season and the final event of the season's Home Nations Series.


2019 Welsh Open (snooker)
Neil Robertson won the event, his fifteenth ranking title and second Home Nations triumph since the re-brand in 2016. He defeated Stuart Bingham 9–7 in the final, who made eleven centuries throughout the tournament. Robertson made the fourth 147 break of his career in the fourth frame of his Round 1 match with Jordan Brown. He then followed up with a 140 break to win the match 4–1.


2019 Welsh Open (snooker)
John Higgins was the defending champion, having beaten Barry Hawkins 9–7 in the 2018 final, but he was defeated 3–5 by Joe O'Connor in the quarter-finals.


2019 Welsh Open (snooker)
Noppon Saengkham made his first ever professionally recorded 147 break in the second frame of his third round match against Mark Selby. It was the fifth time two maximums had been made during the main stages of a ranking event and the fourth time inside a year.


2019 Welsh Open (snooker), Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2019 Weltklasse Zürich
The 2019 Weltklasse Zürich was an outdoor track and field meeting in Zürich, Switzerland. Held on 28–29 August 2019 at the Letzigrund, it was the thirteenth leg of the 2019 IAAF Diamond League – the highest level international track and field circuit – and the first half of the final for 2019 (the second half being held during the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, Belgium on 6 September). It was the tenth and last edition of the meet to co-host the Diamond League final with the Memorial Van Damme; The Weltklasse Zürich will exclusively host the final in 2020.


2019 Weltklasse Zürich
Because of the late World Athletics Championships, the Diamond League final was for the first time held before the World Athletics Championships. Sixteen Diamond League champions (eight men and eight women) were determined and received wildcards to compete at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Thirteen more events were contested outside the Diamond League.


2019 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council election
Elections to Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council took place on 2 May 2019. This was on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom.


2019 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council election, Results
No Independent (-4.6) or Abolish the Town Council (-0.7) candidates as previous.


2019 West Berkshire Council election
The 2019 West Berkshire Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of West Berkshire Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party retained overall control of the council, despite significant gains by the Liberal Democrats and the election of the first Green Party councillors in West Berkshire.


2019 West Berkshire Council election, Background
At the last election in 2015, the Conservatives won a majority of seats, with 48 councillors, compared to 4 for the Liberal Democrats. No other parties had representation on the council.


2019 West Berkshire Council election, Background
There were boundary changes between the 2015 and 2019 elections, reducing the total number of seats from 52 to 43, and the number of wards from 30 to 24. The new wards elected between one and three district councillors depending on their population.


2019 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2019 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 23 through May 25, 2019 at Banner Island Ballpark in Stockton, California. The four team, double-elimination tournament winner, Loyola Marymount, earned the league's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2019 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage. The teams then played a double elimination tournament.


2019 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Outstanding Player
Codie Paiva (LMU) was named the Most Outstanding Player of the WCC Baseball Tournament.


2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, held March 7–12 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. Saint Mary's upset top-ranked Gonzaga 60–47 in the championship game and received the conference's automatic bid to the 68-team NCAA Tournament.


2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
It was the fourth WCC Tournament title for Saint Mary's, their first since 2012, and the Gaels were seeded eleventh in the South regional of the NCAA Tournament. With the loss, Gonzaga fell to fourth in the national rankings, but was still the top seed in the West regional.


2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All ten WCC schools teams participated in the tournament, seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system for identical conference records. The tournament returned to a format similar to that used from 2003 to 2011, with slight changes to the terminology used for the rounds prior to the semifinals. The 7 through 10 seeds will play in the "first round", the 5 and 6 seeds will start play in the "second round", and the 3 and 4 seeds will start in the "third round". The top two seeds will receive byes into the semifinals.


2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
As the regular-season champion, Gonzaga clinched a semifinal spot, and technically secured a place in the NIT. However, the Bulldogs were all but certain to receive an NCAA Tournament bid regardless of results in the conference tournament, given that they entered the final week of the conference season as the top-ranked team in the AP Poll.


2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Saint Mary's also clinched a semifinal berth as the regular season runner-up. BYU and San Francisco clinched double byes, while LMU and Santa Clara had single byes. San Diego, Pepperdine, Pacific and Portland played in the first round.


2019 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2019 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament held for the West Coast Conference for the 2018–19 season. All tournament games were played at the Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas area community of Paradise, Nevada from March 7–12, 2019. BYU won the championship game over Gonzaga. Paisley Johnson was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.


2019 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 10 WCC schools will participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with the following tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records:


2019 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
The tournament will return to a format similar to that used from 2003 to 2011, with slight changes to the terminology used for the rounds prior to the semifinals. The 7 through 10 seeds will play in what is now called the "opening round", the 5 and 6 seeds will start play in the "second round", and the 3 and 4 seeds will start in the "third round". The top two seeds will receive byes into the semifinals.


2019 West Coast Eagles season
The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football team based in Perth, Western Australia. Their 2019 season was their 33rd season in the Australian Football League (AFL), their sixth season under coach Adam Simpson, and their fifth and final season with Shannon Hurn as captain. Having won the 2018 AFL Grand Final, expectations were that West Coast would finish in the top four on the ladder.


2019 West Coast Eagles season
They won only three of their first six games, losing by greater than 40 points to the Brisbane Lions, Port Adelaide and Geelong, placing the Eagles 12th on the ladder at the end of round six. They then won 12 of their next 14 games, the losses being to Sydney by 45 points and to Collingwood by 1 point. By the end of round 21, West Coast had been in the top four since round 14, and were aiming to finish in the top two.


2019 West Coast Eagles season
They then had a disappointing six-point loss to Richmond, and a shock 38-point loss to Hawthorn at home, to finish the season fifth on the ladder. This meant West Coast missed out on the double chance that top four teams get in the AFL finals, significantly lowering their chances of winning the Grand Final. In the 2019 AFL finals series, they faced Essendon in an elimination final, beating them by 55 points, before losing to Geelong in a semi-final by 20 points, ending West Coast's season.


2019 West Coast Eagles season
Notable events include Daniel Venables suffering a career-ending concussion in round nine, Nic Naitanui returning from injury in round 15, having been out since round 17, 2018, and Willie Rioli being provisionally suspended before the semi-final after tampering with a drug test. Jack Darling, who kicked 59 goals, was the club's leading goal-scorer for the third time in his career. Darling, Hurn, Jeremy McGovern and Elliot Yeo were selected for the 2020 All-Australian team. Liam Ryan won Mark of the Year for a mark he took in round nine against Melbourne. Luke Shuey was West Coast's best and fairest player, winning the John Worsfold Medal. West Coast fielded a reserves team in the West Australian Football League for the first time in 2019.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Background
The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football team based in Perth, Western Australia, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). They finished the 2018 home-and-away season second on the ladder. Continuing on through the finals series, they won the Grand Final against Collingwood by five points, thus becoming the reigning premiers.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Background
Prior to the start of the 2019 season, most of a group of 15 AFL.com.au reporters predicted that West Coast would finish the season in the top four again. However, only Travis King predicted they would win the premiership, with most reporters predicting Richmond would do so instead. All eight members of a group of Western Australia-based people from Nine Entertainment predicted that West Coast would finish in the top four, and three of them predicted West Coast would win the premiership.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Background
In October 2018, it was announced that the West Australian Football League (WAFL) had decided to allow the West Coast Eagles to enter a reserve team into that competition starting in 2019, after the idea was unanimously endorsed by a meeting of WAFL club presidents. The Eagles paid a one-off licence fee of $90,000, which was split evenly between the nine other WAFL clubs, as well an annual fee of $800,000, to be spent in various areas.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Background
This was an increase on the previous $467,000 annual fee for aligning with East Perth Football Club, which allowed Eagles players to play for East Perth; the five year agreement with East Perth had been mutually terminated in 2018. West Coast said the new arrangement would benefit its players that missed out on selection in AFL games or who were coming back from injury and wanted to play in the less intense WAFL games first. As part of the agreement, West Coast played all their WAFL home games at their opponents' home ground.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Background
West Coast's on-field leadership went unchanged going into the 2019 season. Shannon Hurn remained captain for his fifth year, Josh Kennedy and Luke Shuey remained as vice-captains, and Nic Naitanui, Jeremy McGovern and Andrew Gaff rounded out the leadership group. Adam Simpson was senior coach for a sixth season. The assistant coaches were Jaymie Graham (forwards), Nathan van Berlo (midfield), Daniel Pratt (backs), Adrian Hickmott (contested ball coordinator), and Matt Rosa (stoppages and structure). The head of development was Gavin Bell. The other development coaches were Chance Bateman (forwards), Luke Webster (midfield), and Mark Nicoski (backs). Webster was also the coach of West Coast's WAFL team.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Background
In March, Sam Kerr, the captain of Australia's women's national soccer team, was announced to be West Coast's number-one ticket holder for 2019–20. West Coast's major sponsors for 2019 were fast food outlet Hungry Jack's and online mortgage broker Lendi. West Coast had 90,445 members in 2019, which was the club's record. This was the second highest number of memberships out of the eighteen AFL teams in 2019.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Playing list, 2018 off-season changes
After the end of the 2018 AFL season, Eric Mackenzie retired due to consistent struggles with fractures in his feet. Mark LeCras also retired, saying it was the right time, after becoming a premiership player in his 14th season with the Eagles. Scott Lycett left the club under the AFL's free agency rules, taking an offer from Port Adelaide in his home state of South Australia. West Coast received a pick at the end of the first round of the 2018 draft as compensation. Malcolm Karpany and Luke Partington were delisted after having played no games in the 2018 season. Ryan Burrows, Callan England, Tony Olango and Tarir Bayok, who were all on the rookie list and did not play any AFL games, were also delisted.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Playing list, 2018 off-season changes
On 7 October 2018, the day before the start of the 2018 trade period, Andrew Gaff signed a new contract with West Coast, after much consideration to leaving under the AFL's free agency rules. Having being suspended for eight weeks near the end of the 2018 season for striking Fremantle player Andrew Brayshaw in the jaw, Gaff was considering signing a contract with a club based in Victoria, his home state. Six clubs looked at potentially recruiting Gaff, including North Melbourne, who offered him a seven-year long deal worth about $8 million. In the end, he chose to stay with West Coast, in the hopes of winning a premiership, signing a contract there worth less than the North Melbourne one.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Playing list, 2018 off-season changes
West Coast were one of the least active teams during the 2018 trade period, making one trade. Obtaining an experienced ruckman to replace Lycett while Nic Naitanui was recovering from injury was West Coast's top trade priority. They did that by giving St Kilda pick 39 and a 2019 fourth round pick in exchange for Tom Hickey, pick 60 and a 2019 fourth round pick. West Coast were also aiming for a trade with Geelong for Tim Kelly, who wanted to return to his home state of Western Australia.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Playing list, 2018 off-season changes
The Eagles offered picks 20, 22 and a 2019 second round pick to Geelong, but the two teams could not reach an agreement. West Coast's list manager Brady Rawlings said they will try to get a Tim Kelly trade done the following year, when he is out of contract. AFL.com.au rated West Coast's trade period an 8/10, saying that "Andrew Gaff's recommitment on the eve of the Trade Period meant anything else was a bonus."


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Playing list, 2018 off-season changes
It also said that although the Eagles failed in a trade for Tim Kelly, it was good that they did not trade away the large number of picks that Geelong wanted in return. Fox Sports gave the trade period a "C" grade, with Nick Dal Santo saying "it was a good get because they had to get a ruckman. Tom Hickey is not a premium ruck, we completely understand that ...", and "... their biggest get this year was keeping Andrew Gaff."


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Playing list, 2018 off-season changes
The Eagles made three trades during the draft. The first trade had West Coast receive pick 29 from Sydney in exchange for a 2019 third round pick. That was the first ever trade of draft picks during the draft, as that year was the first time it was allowed. The second trade had West Coast receive a 2019 second round pick for sending Sydney pick 25. Their last trade involved Gold Coast giving West Coast picks 27 and 32 for West Coast's pick 23 and a 2019 fifth round pick.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Playing list, 2018 off-season changes
In the draft, West Coast chose Xavier O'Neill (pick 28), Luke Foley (pick 31), Bailey Williams (pick 35) and Jarrod Cameron (pick 39). In the rookie draft, West Coast chose Harry Edwards (pick 18) and Josh Smith (pick 34), passing on pick 46. Patrick Bines and Brodie Riach, who both have a background in basketball, joined West Coast as category B rookies.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Playing list, 2018 off-season changes
Keegan Brooksby, who played for Gold Coast between 2015 and 2017, joined the club in the supplementary selection period, which allows clubs to select players who are previous AFL players that have not been in the AFL for over a year. AFL.com.au's Callum Twomey and Riley Beveridge complimented the Eagles on the trades they made during the draft. ESPN rated West Coast's draft a "B+".


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary
In the 2019 AFL season, each team played 22 games and had a mid-season bye. West Coast played Adelaide, Collingwood, Fremantle, Hawthorn and Melbourne twice, and the other teams once each. The teams that West Coast played twice were regarded as tough to beat before the start of the season. West Coast had an increase in prime time scheduled games compared to the 2018 season, with three Friday night games at home and a Thursday night game at home. They also had only six six-day breaks, and three matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), their equal highest number of matches there since 2005. As part of their pre-season, West Coast played Geelong and Fremantle in the JLT Community Series. West Coast beat both teams.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 1–12
Going into the start of the season, Nic Naitanui, Andrew Gaff, Jamie Cripps, Josh Kennedy and Willie Rioli were unable to play. Naitanui had been out indefinitely since tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament in round 17, 2018. Gaff had been out due to an eight match ban received for striking Fremantle player Andrew Brayshaw in the jaw in round 20, 2018. Cripps, Kennedy and Rioli were out due to foot injuries. West Coast's first match of the regular season was against the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba on 23 March.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 1–12
The humidity was high, which made for wet and slippery conditions. The Lions, who finished 15th on the ladder in 2018, beat the Eagles by 44 points. West Coast started well, kicking six goals to Brisbane's one in the first quarter, but the Eagles kicked only two goals after that, compared to Brisbane's fourteen. It was the greatest defeat of an AFL reigning premier in round one since Richmond were beaten by Carlton by 62 points in 1981.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 1–12
Brisbane went on to finish the season second on the ladder, however at the time, Brisbane were regarded by most as a team that West Coast should have comfortably beaten. Liam Ryan was reported to the Match Review Panel for striking Darcy Gardiner in the final minutes of the match. He received a $2,500 fine and no ban.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 1–12
West Coast won their next match, beating Greater Western Sydney by 52 points at Optus Stadium. The Eagles unfurled their premiership flag in celebration of 2018's grand final victory. Josh Kennedy made a return from a foot injury, and Josh Smith made his West Coast debut, having played for Collingwood previously. The match was Shannon Hurn's 250th AFL match, and Kennedy's and Chris Masten's 200th AFL match. The first grand final rematch was in round three, resulting in a 20-point win over Collingwood at the MCG. Andrew Gaff returned from his suspension and Jamie Cripps returned from injury.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 1–12
Both played quite well, with Gaff having 34 disposals and Cripps kicking four goals. Luke Shuey played well too, having 24 disposals. Liam Duggan did not play due to a knee injury, with Josh Rotham making his AFL debut as replacement. In response to that match, AFL.com.au's Riley Beveridge declared that West Coast "remained the team to beat in 2019". In round four was the season's first Western Derby, the biannual home-and-away match between West Coast and their cross-town rivals Fremantle. West Coast won by 10 points, having lead for the entire match. However, there were a few times where the Dockers were potentially going to get in front, with West Coast being unable to build up a substantial margin. Shannon Hurn won the Glendinning–Allan Medal for the third time.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 1–12
The Eagles had their second loss of the season in round five against Port Adelaide, being beaten by 42 points at Optus Stadium. The match was played in heavy rain, which was a weakness for West Coast. One of the only highlights for the Eagles was Jack Petruccelle, who kicked five goals. He received a Rising Star award nomination for this match. In round six, West Coast suffered a 58-point loss to Geelong at GMHBA Stadium, leaving them 12th on the ladder at the end of the round, well below expectations. The Eagles won again in round seven, albeit unconvincingly.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 1–12
West Coast beat the Gold Coast Suns, the eventual wooden spooners, 80–57. West Coast had a lead of 42 points midway through the third quarter, but that narrowed down to just 11 points near the end of the final quarter, with the Suns kicking five goals in a row. The Eagles held off a potential comeback to win by 23 points. The following round, West Coast moved back into the top eight due to an 18-point win against St Kilda. Saints fans were angry at the 7–3 free-kick count for the first half, including two free kicks that resulted in West Coast goals. The Eagles' final quarter was lacklustre, kicking only one goal and eight behinds, but they held on to win 88–70.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 1–12
West Coast then won their round nine match against Melbourne, despite the Demons dominating the first three quarters. The Eagles kicked seven of the final eight goals to win by 22 points. Liam Ryan took a spectacular mark on top of 208-centimetre (6 ft 10 in) Melbourne ruckman Max Gawn, before kicking a goal to give West Coast the lead in the final ten minutes. Ryan went on to win the Mark of the Year award for that. The match was also Willie Rioli's first match since the 2018 Grand Final, having had a foot stress fracture since the pre-season. Daniel Venables had to be stretchered off the ground after being knocked out in the second quarter. He then missed the rest of the season and retired in 2021 as a result of his concussion. Lewis Jetta was suspended for one match due to a sling tackle on Tim Smith.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 1–12
The Eagles had another comeback victory in round ten, this time against Adelaide. The Crows entered half time 28 points ahead of West Coast, who kicked no goals in the second quarter, compared to Adelaide, who had five. West Coast dominated the rest of the match though, kicking ten goals in the second half, compared to Adelaide's three. The Eagles ended up as 11 point winners. In round 11, West Coast moved into the top four and increased their percentage considerably by defeating the Western Bulldogs 133–72.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 1–12
Jack Darling had six goals, Andrew Gaff had 36 touches, Jeremy McGovern had eight marks and Brad Sheppard had 22 disposals. The only injury was to Shannon Hurn, who suffered a hamstring strain, missing only the following game against Sydney. The Eagles' five-match winning streak ended in round 12, when Sydney beat West Coast 116–71. The Eagles were very unlikely to win from half time onwards. The loss continued West Coast's 20 year and eight match losing streak at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Willie Rioli and Nathan Vardy both received a one match suspension for rough conduct against Colin O'Riordan and Jackson Thurlow respectively.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 13–23
West Coast had a bye in round 13. The following round, they dominated Essendon, however they only won by 35 points due to their inaccuracy. West Coast had 24 more inside 50s and 20 more scoring shots, but kicked twice as many behinds as goals in the first half. The final score was 106–71, leaving West Coast disappointed after what could have been a significant boost to their percentage. Jarrod Cameron made his debut that match, and Jeremy McGovern was given a one match suspension for pushing Matt Guelfi into the boundary fence.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 13–23
In round 15, Nic Naitanui made a much-anticipated return from injury to the AFL, having played one match for the Eagles' WAFL team the previous week. West Coast's match against Hawthorn at the MCG in wet weather was a narrow 77–71 victory. Scores had been level before Jamie Cripps kicked the winning goal with less than two minutes to go.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 13–23
Round 16 saw the Eagles win the 50th Western Derby 122–31; the 91-point margin was the second largest in a Western Derby, and Fremantle's 31 points their lowest score. The win meant that West Coast had a record-equalling nine game winning streak against Fremantle. Brad Sheppard won his first Glendinning–Allan Medal. The following round, West Coast lost to Collingwood by one point, despite leading for most of the match. West Coast were unable to score any goals for the last quarter and a half, allowing Collingwood to come back from an 18-point margin.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 13–23
Jarrod Cameron, playing his fourth AFL match, was one of the best on ground, kicking four goals. However, after that loss, West Coast were still in the top four. In round 18, West Coast played Melbourne at TIO Traeger Park in Alice Springs, their first time playing in the town. West Coast won the match 91–78, holding off a surge in goals by Melbourne. A late withdrawal by Shannon Hurn due to a calf injury enabled Francis Watson to make his debut.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 13–23
In round 19, West Coast defeated North Melbourne 121–72, placing the Eagles two wins inside the top four. Josh Kennedy kicked seven goals, one of which was his 600th goal. Shannon Hurn returned from injury for the Eagles' round 20 match against Carlton at Marvel Stadium. West Coast had a solid win, beating Carlton 99–75. This put the Eagles on 14 wins, the same number as the first-placed Geelong. West Coast then won their following match, against Adelaide, 90–80. The close score caused the Eagles to drop from second to third on the ladder despite the win. West Coast were still looking at a top two finish though. Oscar Allen received a Rising Star award nomination for his three goal effort against Adelaide.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 13–23
In round 22, West Coast faced Richmond, 2018's minor premiers, in what AFL.com.au called the "game of the season", and a possible preview for the Grand Final. West Coast played well in the first quarter of the match, kicking seven goals to Richmond's three. Richmond made a gradual comeback after quarter time though, kicking six of the next eight goals to be behind one point at three-quarter time. It had started raining at half time, which favoured Richmond's playing style over the Eagles'. Richmond gained the lead early in the final quarter, kicking the first two goals.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 13–23
West Coast tried to gain the lead back, but were unable to do so. Richmond ended up winning by six points. It was now unlikely for the Eagles to finish in the top two, with the results of other teams required to go their way, but a top four finish was still possible. Going into their round 23 match against Hawthorn, almost all expectations were that West Coast would win, and finish the home-and-away season firmly in the top four. Hawthorn were barely in finals contention, and West Coast were playing at home.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Rounds 13–23
Instead, Hawthorn won the match by 38 points, putting West Coast in a precarious position on the ladder, having to rely on other teams' results to go their way for a top four finish. When Richmond beat the Brisbane Lions the following day, West Coast moved down to fifth on the ladder, missing out on the double chance in the finals that comes to teams that finish in the top four, making it significantly harder to win the premiership.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Finals
West Coast had a 116–61 win in their elimination final against Essendon; Nic Naitanui was reported for shoving Essendon's Zach Merrett into the fence after Merrett pulled on Naitanui's hair. Both received a $1000 fine for the incident. The elimination final was Luke Shuey's 200th AFL game. On the day before their semi-final, Willie Rioli was provisionally suspended, effective immediately, as a result of an incident on 20 August, where he substituted his urine with another substance during a drug test. In the second week of the finals, West Coast faced Geelong in a semi-final at the MCG.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Finals
The Cats had come out of a loss to Collingwood in a qualifying final the previous weekend. Geelong started the match well, kicking five goals in the first quarter, whereas West Coast only kicked one. West Coast narrowed the margin, kicking two more goals than Geelong in the second quarter. The Eagles managed to take back the lead in the third quarter, but they were unable to get a lead of more than seven points. The margin at three quarter time was four points in favour of the Eagles. West Coast kicked no goals in the final quarter, and Geelong kicked four, giving the Cats a 20 point win. This eliminated the West Coast Eagles from the finals series.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary, Finals
In a post-season review for AFL.com.au, Travis King rated West Coast's season a "B-", writing that "inconsistency plagued the reigning premiers", and that "the Eagles could – and should – have finished top-four". He also said "their inability to put poor teams away cost them valuable percentage", but praised the decision to trade for Tom Hickey.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, WAFL team
West Coast's WAFL team was captained by Fraser McInnes in its inaugural season. West Coast had a 9–9 win–loss record, finishing fourth out of ten on the ladder, qualifying them for the 2019 WAFL finals. They won an elimination final against West Perth, before losing a semi-final against Claremont.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Awards
Liam Ryan won the Mark of the Year award for a mark he took during West Coast's round 9 match against Melbourne. This was the third time an Eagles player won the award. Ryan's mark during round 20 against Carlton was another one of the three Mark of the Year finalists. Oscar Allen and Jack Petruccelle were nominated for the Rising Star award in rounds 5 and 21 respectively. Jack Darling, Shannon Hurn, Jeremy McGovern and Elliot Yeo were selected for the 2019 All-Australian team, with Hurn being the vice-captain of the team.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Awards
2019 was the first time for Darling, second time for Hurn and Yeo, and fourth time for McGovern to be selected in the All-Australian team. Andrew Gaff, Brad Sheppard and Luke Shuey were in the 40-man initial squad, but missed out on being selected in the 22-man final team. West Coast's four players in the All-Australian team was the equal highest number that year.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Awards
West Coast held its awards night on 3 October. Luke Shuey won the John Worsfold Medal for best and fairest player with 258 votes. Behind him were Elliot Yeo (239), Brad Sheppard (234), Andrew Gaff (231) and Jack Darling (199). This was Luke Shuey's second John Worsfold Medal, the first being in 2016.


2019 West Coast Eagles season, Awards
Other awards presented on the night were the Chris Mainwaring Medal for Best Clubman, awarded to Fraser McInnes; Emerging Talent, awarded to Oscar Allen; Player of the Finals, jointly awarded to Andrew Gaff and Luke Shuey; and Leading Goalkicker, awarded to Jack Darling, with 59 goals in the home-and-away season. West Coast's inaugural chairman Richard Colless, former players Chad Morrison and Mark Nicoski and former directors Robert Armstrong and Mark Hohnen were awarded life membership of the West Coast Eagles.


2019 West Devon Borough Council election
The 2019 West Devon Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019, to elect members of West Devon Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England.


2019 West Devon Borough Council election, Results by Ward, Milton Ford
Neil Jory was an incumbent councillor for Tavistock North ward.


2019 West Devon Borough Council election, Results by Ward, South Tawton
Louise Watts was an incumbent councillor for the Exbourne ward.


2019 West Devon Borough Council election, Results by Ward, Tamarside
Chris Edmonds was the winning Independent candidate in 2015. The change in his share of the vote is shown from his result in 2015, rather than the Conservative candidate's.


2019 West Florida Argonauts football team
The 2019 West Florida Argonauts football team represented the University of West Florida as a member of the Gulf South Conference (GSC) during the 2019 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Pete Shinnick. The Argonauts played their home games at Blue Wahoos Stadium. The Argonauts won the 2019 NCAA Division II Football Championship by defeating Minnesota State, 48–40 in the 2019 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game.


2019 West Florida Argonauts football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll
On August 1, 2019, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Argonauts predicted to finish in 4th place in the conference.


2019 West Florida Argonauts football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team
The Argonauts had three players at two positions selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.


2019 West Florida Argonauts football team, Schedule
West Florida 2019 football schedule consists of five home and five away games in the regular season. The Argonauts will host GSC foes Delta State, Mississippi College, North Greenville, and West Alabama, and will travel to Florida Tech, Shorter, Valdosta State, and West Georgia.


2019 West Florida Argonauts football team, Schedule
The Argonauts will host one of the two non-conference games against Virginia-Lynchburg and  will travel to Carson–Newman from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC).


2019 West Florida Argonauts football team, Schedule
Two of the ten games will be broadcast on ESPN3 and ESPN+, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.


2019 West Lancashire Borough Council election
The 2019 West Lancashire Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of West Lancashire Borough Council.


2019 West Lindsey District Council election
The 2019 West Lindsey District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of West Lindsey District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Conservatives maintained overall control of the council, albeit with a reduced majority.


2019 West Lindsey District Council election, Council composition
Following the last election in 2015, the composition of the council was:


2019 West Lindsey District Council election, Council composition
Lab - Independent I - Independent LI - Lincolnshire Independents


2019 West Lindsey District Council election, Ward Results, Gainsborough East
Devine was previously elected as a Labour councillor. A total of 19 ballots were rejected.


2019 West Oxfordshire District Council election
The 2019 West Oxfordshire District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of West Oxfordshire District Council in Oxfordshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2019 West Pokot landslide
At least 52 people were killed after heavy rainfall triggered a landslide in Pokot, Northwest Kenya. Flooded roads and bridges were swept away after the incident, hindering rescue operations. The landslide began around 2:30 a.m. Saturday 30 November in West Pokot County near the border with  Uganda. It caused destruction to infrastructure making it harder to provide badly needed help. It is one of the worst natural disasters to hit the area in recorded history.


2019 West Suffolk District Council election
The 2019 West Suffolk District Council election was held on 2 May 2019 and was the inaugural election of the new West Suffolk District Council. It was held concurrently with other local elections across the United Kingdom.


2019 West Suffolk District Council election
The Conservative Party won 43 of the 64 seats and currently control the Council.


2019 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 2019 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University during the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mountaineers played their home games at the Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium, in Morgantown, West Virginia, and competed in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Neal Brown, who previously coached at Troy University. They finished the season 5–7, 3–6 in Big 12 play to finish in a tie for seventh place.


2019 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Previous season
The Mountaineers finished the 2018 season 8–3, 6–3 in Big 12 play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They were invited to the Camping World Bowl where they lost to Syracuse.


2019 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll
The 2019 Big 12 media days were held July 15–16, 2019 in Frisco, Texas. In the Big 12 preseason media poll, West Virginia was predicted to finish in eighth in the standings.


2019 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, at Kansas
West Virginia was expected to take advantage of observing the Jayhawks offensive performance the prior week where Kansas had beaten Boston College. When the game rolled around, the Jayhawk offense made two specific mistakes that impacted the game:  A lost fumble and a fourth quarter interception. Kansas averaged 7.4 yards per play on offense. It also appeared that KU kicker Liam Jones faked an injury after a field goal to make way for Jacob Borcila to "replace" him at the next kickoff to execute an onside kick—which they recovered but then lost due to a penalty. West Virginia won the game 29-24.


2019 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State
West Virginia's Jarret Doege started at quarterback and threw for 234 yards and three touchdowns. This was the first start at West Virginia for Doege who transferred from Bowling Green, as Austin Kendall had been the starting quarterback all season for the Mountaineers. Doege's biggest throw was a 50-yard touchdown pass on third-and-22 in the fourth quarter to take the lead.


2019 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State
Kansas State started strong, holding West Virginia to "three-and-out" and then Skylar Thompson threw a 68-yard touchdown pass on their first play from scrimmage. Thompson ended up 24 of 39 for 299 yards passing with a touchdown but also gave up two interceptions. On the ground, the Wildcats ran the ball 32 times but averaged only 3.2 yards per attempt.


2019 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State
West Virginia cornerback Hakeem Bailey intercepted Skylar Thompson’s pass toward the end zone in the closing seconds of the game. The Mountaineers left Manhattan with a 24-20 upset of the Wildcats.


2019 Westboro station bus crash
At 3:50 pm EST, on January 11, 2019, an OC Transpo double-decker bus, operating on route 269 to Kanata, crashed on approach to Westboro Station, Ottawa, Canada, by swerving and striking the bus shelter at the station. Part of the upper deck of the bus was torn off on impact, killing three people on board, as well as injuring 23 others. The driver was arrested at the scene for allegedly failing to cooperate with police, and was released with no charges laid.


2019 Westboro station bus crash, Investigation
The Ottawa Police Service are leading the investigation into the collision. From the early hours, experts, the public and politicians called on the City of Ottawa to invite the Transportation Safety Board, TSB, an independent federal agency that advances transportation safety, to conduct a full safety investigation.


2019 Westboro station bus crash, Investigation
On January 16, five days after the crash, the Ottawa police accepted an offer of technical assistance from the TSB. The Ottawa police stated that the skills of the TSB will augment the reconstruction portion of the investigation especially in terms of collision reconstruction, human factors and electronic data gathering, based on the TSB's engineering expertise in collision reconstruction and analysis of vehicle and road design.


2019 Westboro station bus crash, Investigation
The bus crash falls outside the current mandate of the TSB, which includes only air, rail, marine and pipeline transportation. Without jurisdiction, the TSB could not lead a full investigation, or have the authority to make national safety recommendations based on their findings. Investigators have ruled out impaired driving as the cause of the collision.


2019 Westboro station bus crash, Aftermath
On August 23, 2019, it was reported that 38 charges of dangerous driving have been laid against the bus driver. The city of Ottawa and OC Transpo were cleared of criminal wrongdoing.


2019 Western & Southern Open
The 2019 Western & Southern Open  was a men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts from August 12–18, 2019. It was a Masters 1000 tournament on the 2019 ATP Tour and a WTA Premier 5 tournament on the 2019 WTA Tour. The tournament was one of two headline events in the 2019 US Open Series. The 2019 tournament was the 118th men's edition and the 91st women's edition of the Cincinnati Masters and took place at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, a northern suburb of Cincinnati, in the United States.


2019 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds
The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of August 5, 2019. Rankings and points before are as of August 12, 2019.


2019 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds
† The player used an exemption to skip the tournament in 2018. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.


2019 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds
‡ The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2018. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.


2019 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds, Withdrawals
The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.


2019 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:


2019 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2019 Western & Southern Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2019 Western & Southern Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:


2019 Western & Southern Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2019 Western & Southern Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2019 Western & Southern Open – Men's Doubles
Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate together this year. Murray played alongside Neal Skupski, but lost in the semifinals to Ivan Dodig and Filip Polášek. Soares played alongside Mate Pavić, but lost in the semifinals to Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Men's Doubles
Dodig and Polášek went on to win the title, defeating Cabal and Farah in the final, 4–6, 6–4, [10–6].


2019 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles
Daniil Medvedev defeated David Goffin in the final, 7–6(7–3), 6–4, to win the 2019 Cincinnati Masters. It was his first ATP Masters 1000 title.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles
Novak Djokovic was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Medvedev.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles
Nick Kyrgios set a record for the highest fine in ATP history in his second round loss to Karen Khachanov. He was penalized $113,000 for five separate unsportsmanlike conduct violations including an expletive-laden rant, walking off-court to smash two racquets, and spitting at umpire Fergus Murphy.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Women's Doubles
Lucie Hradecká and Ekaterina Makarova were the defending champions, but Makarova could not participate this year due to injury. Hradecká played alongside Andreja Klepač and successfully defended her title, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Demi Schuurs in the final, 6–4, 6–1.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Women's Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles
Kiki Bertens was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Venus Williams.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles
Madison Keys won the title, defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final, 7–5, 7–6(7–5).


2019 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles
Naomi Osaka retained the WTA no. 1 singles ranking after the tournament. Ashleigh Barty and Karolína Plíšková were also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles
This tournament marked Maria Sharapova's final WTA tour victory before her retirement; she defeated Alison Riske in the first round before losing to Barty in the second round.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.


2019 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2019 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2019 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament took place beginning on May 22 and ending on May 25 or 26. The top six regular season finishers of the league's ten teams met in the double-elimination tournament to be held at Hohokam Stadium, spring training home of the Oakland Athletics in Mesa, Arizona. The winner, Sacramento State, earned the Western Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2019 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded based on conference winning percentage.


2019 Western Athletic Conference Softball Tournament
The 2019 Western Athletic Conference Softball tournament was held at GCU Softball Stadium on the campus of Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona from May 8 through May 11, 2019. All six eligible softball teams competed as part of the tournament. Cal Baptist was ineligible to participate as they were in year one of the four year reclassification process.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season
The 2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season will be the 37th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The regular season will begin on August 30, 2019 and conclude on November 2, 2019.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season
The regular season will culminate with the 2019 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament, which will begin on November 8 and conclude on November 16, 2019.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Background
The 2018 season began in August 2018 and concluded in November 2018. Regular season champions, Air Force, enjoyed their best regular season ever, and their best NCAA Tournament berth since 1993. Air Force finished the season ranked 12th in the nation, and achieved a 17–5–0 record. In the 2018 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament, Air Force were eliminated by eventual tournament champions, Grand Canyon. Both teams earned berths into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, being the two WAC representatives in the tournament.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Background
In the NCAA Tournament, Grand Canyon was eliminated on penalty kicks by UC Irvine in the first round. Air Force defeated Central Arkansas, 4–0 in the first round. In the second round, they played against in-state rivals, Denver, where they won 2–1. In the Sweet Sixteen, Air Force traveled out east to take on Indiana, where they lost 2–0. Indiana would end being the national runners-up.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Background
At the end of the season, Air Force's Tucker Bone was named an Consensus All-American by earned first-team All-American honors by 	College Soccer News, Top Drawer Soccer, Soccer America, and United Soccer Coaches. Bone was the highest drafted WAC player selected in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft, being drafted in the first round, twentieth overall by Seattle Sounders. Three other WAC players were drafted in the 2019 SuperDraft: Camden Riley (Sporting Kansas City), Nathan Aune (San Jose Earthquakes), and Mitchell Osmond (Minnesota United).


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Teams
A total of 12 teams are due to take part in the conference this season.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Teams
On July 1, 2019, the University of Missouri–Kansas City announced that its athletic program, previously known as the UMKC Kangaroos, would be rebranded as the Kansas City Roos, with "Roos" having long been used as a short form of the historic "Kangaroos" nickname.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Teams
The 2019 season will be the last for both CSU Bakersfield and Kansas City as WAC members. On July 1, 2020, CSU Bakersfield will join the Big West Conference and Kansas City will return to the Summit League after a seven-year absence.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Preseason, Preseason national polls
The preseason national polls were released in July and August 2019.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Postseason, NCAA Tournament
The NCAA Tournament will begin in November 2019 and conclude on December 17, 2019.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Rankings, Regional rankings
The Far West region of the United Soccer poll ranks teams across the Pac-12, WAC, and Big West.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, 2020 MLS Draft
The 2020 MLS SuperDraft will be held in January 2020.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Homegrown players
The Homegrown Player Rule is a Major League Soccer program that allows MLS teams to sign local players from their own development academies directly to MLS first team rosters. Before the creation of the rule in 2008, every player entering Major League Soccer had to be assigned through one of the existing MLS player allocation processes, such as the MLS SuperDraft.


2019 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Homegrown players
To place a player on its homegrown player list, making him eligible to sign as a homegrown player, players must have resided in that club's home territory and participated in the club's youth development system for at least one year. Players can play college soccer and still be eligible to sign a homegrown contract.


2019 Western Balkans Summit, Poznań
The 2019 Western Balkans Summit in Poznań, Poland, was the sixth annual summit within the Berlin Process initiative for European integration of Western Balkans states. Heads of government, foreign ministers, and the ministers of economy from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia attended, as well as two existing EU member states from the region - Croatia and Slovenia. In addition, other EU member states including Austria, France, Germany, and Italy, as well as representatives of the European Union and the International Financial Institutions, attended to the summit.


2019 Western Balkans Summit, Poznań
The summit took place on 4 and 5 July 2019.


2019 Western Balkans Summit, Poznań, Agenda
The agenda there will be economy, connectivity, civil society with a focus on youth and culture, and security.


2019 Western Balkans Summit, Poznań, Agenda
On the first day are planned the meetings of ministers the economy, the interior, and foreign affairs of the Berlin Process countries whereas on the second of the presidents and prime ministers. The meetings will be accompanied by the EU-Western Balkans Business Forum and the Civil Society Forum.


2019 Western Cape provincial election
The 2019 Western Cape provincial election was held on 8 May 2019 to elect the 6th Western Cape Provincial Parliament. It was the sixth provincial election held since the establishment of the provincial legislature in 1994.


2019 Western Cape provincial election
Incumbent Premier Helen Zille of the Democratic Alliance (DA) was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third term. The party nominated Alan Winde to succeed her.


2019 Western Cape provincial election
The provincial election was won by the ruling Democratic Alliance (DA), but with a reduced majority of 55.45%, down from 59.38% in the 2014 election. The party lost two seats and achieved a majority of 24 seats in the legislature. The Official Opposition African National Congress (ANC) declined from 32.89% to 28.64%, and also lost two seats. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) significantly grew, going from 2.11% to 4.04%, and, consequently, gained one seat. The newly-formed Good received 3.11% of the vote and won a seat. The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) grew to 2.66% and retained its sole seat. The Freedom Front Plus (FF+) and Al Jama-ah also won one seat each.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Background
The 2014 provincial election resulted in the continuation of the incumbent Democratic Alliance provincial government headed by Helen Zille. This would be Zille's second and final term as Premier of the Western Cape. The party increased its seat total from 22 to 26 seats. The African National Congress with Marius Fransman remained the Official Opposition with 14 seats. The newly-formed Economic Freedom Fighters became the third largest party with only one seat. The African Christian Democratic Party retained its sole seat.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Background
On 18 April 2015, incumbent Democratic Alliance Provincial Leader Ivan Meyer announced that he would not seek re-election. Mayor of Cape Town Patricia de Lille was elected as his successor.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Background
In January 2016, allegations of sexual harassment were made against African National Congress Provincial Chairperson Marius Fransman by his former assistant, Louisa Wynand. The party named Khaya Magaxa as his acting successor. Fransman was suspended as Provincial Chairperson in February 2016, and expelled from the African National Congress in November 2016.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Background
In February 2017, Patricia de Lille resigned as Provincial Leader of the Democratic Alliance in order to focus on her mayorship. Deputy Provincial Leader Bonginkosi Madikizela was designated as the interim leader of the party. Madikizela was later elected to a full term in October 2017.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Background
Throughout 2017 and 2018, the Democratic Alliance accused Patricia de Lille of maladministration and covering up corruption in the City of Cape Town. She strongly denied these allegations.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Background
In April 2018, former Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool was announced as the head of the ANC’s Western Cape elections campaign.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Background
In August 2018, Patricia de Lille announced that she would resign as Mayor of Cape Town, effective on 31 October 2018.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Background
In September 2018, The Democratic Alliance selected Alan Winde as the party's Western Cape Premier candidate.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Background
In October 2018, Patricia de Lille resigned as both Mayor of Cape Town and member of the Democratic Alliance. She was succeeded by her predecessor, Dan Plato. She subsequently founded a new political party named Good in December 2018. The party contested the 2019 elections both nationally and provincially.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Background
On 6 November 2018, former Provincial Minister of Community Safety Dan Plato was elected Mayor of Cape Town on 6 November 2018 during a special council sitting, receiving 146 out of 202 valid votes. Six ballots were spoilt. The vote was held via secret ballot. His main challengers were Xolani Sotashe from the African National Congress and Grant Haskin from the African Christian Democratic Party. Sotashe received 53 votes while Haskin got 3 votes.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Background
On 22 January 2019, the Freedom Front Plus announced that it had selected former Premier of the Western Cape and Mayor of Cape Town, Peter Marais, as its party premier candidate.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates
This is a list of political parties that the IEC presented on 20 March 2019 in the order that they appeared on the provincial ballot:


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates, Democratic Alliance
On 1 July 2018, the Democratic Alliance announced its list of candidates nominated for the position of premier. These candidates included:


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates, Democratic Alliance
On 19 September 2018, Democratic Alliance  National Leader Mmusi Maimane announced Alan Winde as the party's premier candidate.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates, African National Congress
By January 2019, the provincial African National Congress had not announced its premier candidate or the list of candidates running to replace acting chairperson Khaya Magaxa. Here are a few candidates that were speculated to be contenders for both the positions of Provincial Chairperson and premier candidate:


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates, African National Congress
On 18 March 2019, the party's leadership announced that its provincial elective conference would be held after the 2019 elections. Provincial-Secretary Faiez Jacobs and acting Provincial Chairperson Khaya Magaxa both declared that they would not contest the elective conference.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates, African National Congress
On 25 April 2019, ANC Provincial Elections Head Ebrahim Rasool announced that the party would not field a premier candidate over concerns that it would divide the provincial party.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates, African National Congress
Soon after the provincial election, the African National Congress announced Cameron Dugmore as the Leader of the Opposition in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament and subsequent premier candidate. Dugmore lost to Alan Winde of the Democratic Alliance on 22 May 2019.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates, Economic Freedom Fighters
The Economic Freedom Fighters Leader Julius Malema announced on 2 February 2019 that the party would not field any premier candidates. City of Cape Town councillor Melikhaya Xego is the party's provincial chairperson. He was also first on the party's provincial parliament list.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates, African Christian Democratic Party
In February 2019, the party selected Christians as its premier candidate.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates, Freedom Front Plus
On 22 January 2019, the party announced that it had nominated Marais as its premier candidate.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates, Good
On 10 February 2019, the party announced that it had nominated De Lille as its Western Cape Premier candidate.


2019 Western Cape provincial election, Contesting parties and premier candidates, Land Party
On 26 February 2019, the Land Party selected Nkohla as the party's premier candidate.


2019 Western Carolina Catamounts football team
The 2019 Western Carolina Catamounts football team represents Western Carolina University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). They are led by eighth-year head coach Mark Speir and play their home games at Bob Waters Field at E. J. Whitmire Stadium.


2019 Western Carolina Catamounts football team, Previous season
The Catamounts finished the 2018 season 3–8, 1–7 in SoCon play to finish in eighth place.


2019 Western Carolina Catamounts football team, Preseason, Preseason polls
The SoCon released their preseason media poll and coaches poll on July 22, 2019. The Catamounts were picked to finish in eighth place in both polls.


2019 Western Carolina Catamounts football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SoCon Teams
The Catamounts placed three players on the preseason all-SoCon teams.


2019 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team
The 2019 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team represented Western Illinois University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Jared Elliott and played their home games at Hanson Field. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC). They finished the season 1–11, 1–7 in MVFC play to finish in a two-way tie for ninth place.


2019 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Previous season
The Leathernecks finished the 2018 season 5–6, 4–4 in MVFC play to finish in fifth place.


2019 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Preseason, MVFC poll
In the MVFC preseason poll released on July 29, 2019, the Leathernecks were predicted to finish in eighth place.


2019 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Preseason, Preseason All–MVFC team
The Leathernecks had one player selected to the preseason all-MVFC team.


2019 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
The 2019 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team (WKU) represented Western Kentucky University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hilltoppers played their home games at the Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green, Kentucky, as members of the East Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by first-year head coach Tyson Helton.


2019 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Previous season
The Hilltoppers finished the 2018 season 3–9, 2–6 in C–USA play to finish in a tie for sixth place in the East Division.


2019 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll
The preseason poll was released prior to the Conference USA media days on July 17–18, 2019. The Hilltoppers were predicted to finish in fifth place in the C–USA East Division.


2019 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The 2019 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Broncos played their home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and competed in the West Division of the Mid-American Conference. The team was led by third-year head coach Tim Lester.


2019 Western Michigan Broncos football team, History
In 1906 The first football team for Western was created. At that time what is now Western Michigan University was named Western State Normal School. In 1907 Western hired Bill Spaulding as the first official coach for the team.


2019 Western Michigan Broncos football team, History
Western's team was originally known as the Hilltoppers and in 1939 it was approved to change its nickname to the Broncos. The new name was suggested by coach John Gill.


2019 Western Michigan Broncos football team, Preseason, MAC media poll
The MAC released their preseason media poll on July 23, 2019, with the Broncos predicted to finish in second place in the West Division.


2019 Western Michoacán clashes
The 2019 Western Michoacán clashes were a series of armed confrontations on 30 August 2019 between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the El Abuelo Cartel based in Tepalcatepec, Michoacán, Mexico. The clashes began early in the morning, when CJNG launched an attack on El Abuelo after declaring war on the El Abuelo Cartel and stating their intentions to expand into Michoacán and clear the state of El Abuelo. The fight lasted for several hours until government forces from the Mexican National Guard arrived and broke up the fighting.


2019 Western Michoacán clashes
Fighters from the CJNG cartel were reportedly armed with Barrett M82s, and as many as 50 were seen in use with the cartel mounted on trucks during the clashes. During the clashes there were a reported 9 people killed and 11 injured; the fighting lasted for 12 hours.


2019 Western Michoacán clashes
During the fighting, local police and armed civilians fought the cartels in several communities in surrounding areas during the clashes between CJNG and El Abuelo, until the National Guard and Army arrived. Michoacán's prosecutor said that when the attacks started, roads were blockaded by CJNG and Cártel del Abuelo vehicles with burning trucks.


2019 Western Storm season
The 2019 season was Western Storm's fourth season, in which they competed in the final edition of the Women's Cricket Super League, a Twenty20 competition. The side finished top of the initial group stage, winning 9 of their 10 matches, therefore progressing straight to the final. In the final they played against Southern Vipers, beating them by seven wickets to claim their second Super League title.


2019 Western Storm season
The side was captained by Heather Knight and coached by Trevor Griffin. They played three home matches at the County Ground, Taunton and two at the County Ground, Bristol.


2019 Western Storm season, Squad
Western Storm announced their full 15-player squad for the season on 5 July 2019. Age given is at the start of Western Storm's first match of the season (6 August 2019).


2019 Westmeath County Council election
A Westmeath County Council election was held in County Westmeath in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 20 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from 4 local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote. The 2018 LEA boundary review committee replaced the three LEAs used in the 2014 elections.


2019 Westmeath County Council election, Results by party
Fianna Fáil gained one seat in this election, Fine Gael and the Labour Party retained their five and two seats respectively, the Green Party had its first ever two local councillors in Westmeath elected, Sinn Féin lost their representation on this council while there were two Independent candidates elected. The smaller parties that ran candidates in Westmeath (Aontú, the Social Democrats and Renua) failed to make any breakthrough.


2019 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
The 2019 Westmeath Senior Football Championship is the 115th edition of the Westmeath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Westmeath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Westmeath in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a seeded group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.


2019 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
Mullingar Shamrocks were the defending champions after defeating town rivals St. Loman's Mullingar in the previous years final. The defence of their title came undone however at the second to last hurdle, when losing to Garrycastle in the Semi-Finals.


2019 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
This was Shandonagh's debut in the senior grade after claiming their first ever Westmeath I.F.C. title in 2018.


2019 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
On 13 October 2019, Garrycastle claimed their 8th S.F.C. title when they defeated St. Loman's Mullingar 2-13 to 3-6 in the final at Cusack Park. This was their first triumph since 2014.


2019 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
St. Mary's Rochfortbridge were relegated to the I.F.C. for 2020 when finishing pointless at the bottom of Group B. This ended their two-year stay in the top-flight of Westmeath club football.


2019 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
The draws for this years S.F.C. took place on 19 February 2019.


2019 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2018 championship season.


2019 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Group stage
The competition was split into two groups, based on their performance in the 2017 Group stages. Group A consists of teams who reached the Quarter-Finals last year or better. Group B consists of two bottom placed finishers in Group 1 last year as well as 3rd and 4th placed in Group 2 last year, the 2017 Relegation Playoff winners (if applicable) and the 2017 Intermediate champions.


2019 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Group stage
The top 2 teams in Group A go into the Semi-Finals, where they await the winners of the Quarter-Finals, which are composed of the 3rd and 4th placed teams in Group A along with the top 2 finishers in Group B. The bottom side in Group B will be relegated to the I.F.C. for 2019, however should 2 teams finish on level points at the bottom of Group 2, then a Relegation Playoff will be conducted involving those two teams.


2019 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Relegation final
Should two teams finish bottom Group B and on level points then a Relegation Final will be conducted between the implicated clubs. Since this was not the case with Castledaly and St. Mary's Rochfortbridge garnering 2 and 0 points throughout their group campaigns, St. Mary's Rochfortbridge were relegated.